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Can't Be Stopped (2022)
Hollywood's own "Can't Be Stopped" crew is one of the most influential and recognizable graffiti crews to emerge out of the U.S. is Since its inception in the early 1980's, the initials C.B.S. have been at the forefront of evolving graffiti art into a true, authentic art form.
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‘Instagram killed the graffiti star’ as rich kids take their art online
Graffiti is gradually disappearing from Britain's city streets as young men switch to using the internet to make a name for themselves as sub-cultural artists, new research says. The British Sociological Association's annual conference in Manchester heard today [Wednesday 5 April] that as a result of the move to sharing work on social media, "the rich kids of Instagram have killed the graffiti writer".
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Banksy Encourages Fans to Shoplift From Guess Since Company ‘Helped Themselves to My Artwork Without Asking’
Banksy told his followers to shoplift from the Regent Street Guess store in London after it displayed a collection that used his artwork without permission.
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Tagging Over Murals: *67’s Fight to Keep Graffiti Alive
*67 is a crew of young graffiti taggers in New York. We follow them for a night as they get their names up as much as they can across the city.
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Novel hydrogels can safely remove graffiti from vandalized street art
Mention the word "graffiti," and many people's thoughts immediately turn to vandalism in the form of defacement of property. But there is also graffiti that rises above such negative connotations and qualifies as bona fide street art. Think of the commemorative murals created after the death of NBA All-Star Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna; the Black Lives Matter logos painted on the streets in New York City and along 16th Street in Washington...
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Great walls of China: Beijing's burgeoning graffiti scene – in pictures
A thriving graffiti culture has been brewing for decades in Beijing, featuring Chinese characters, animals of the zodiac ... and complaints about the price of pork
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When does street art become ‘art’ art?
Whether you think graffiti is a subversive, democratic art form or a public nuisance, it harks back to our cave-painting days
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Career choices
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'Not just weeds': how rebel botanists are using graffiti to name forgotten flora
A rising international force of rebel botanists armed with chalk has taken up street graffiti to highlight the names and importance of the diverse but downtrodden flora growing in the cracks of paths and walls in towns and cities across Europe.
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Banksy's Fake Store Is An Attempt To Abuse Trademark Law To Avoid Copyright Law
You may have seen the headlines lately, saying that famed pseudonymous street artist Banksy was being "forced" into opening up a pop up store in London in order to secure a trademark and prevent "a greetings card company" from...
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No psychedelics needed by Martinus
Had to go out for a bit. :-)
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Saype's grassy graffiti: meet the street-art sensation who sprays mountains
The French artist’s giant biodegradable artworks adorn fields, are best seen by drones and last only days.
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Know I'm Here - Handcraft
Documentary Film. In a moment of crisis for the subarctic town of Churchill, Manitoba, Kal Barteski brings together artists from around the world to paint massive murals on the town’s neglected buildings, to bring hope and awareness.
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Wolume 3 - A Vandal's Way of Life
The film is a sequel to the graffiti films Wolume 1 & 2 and is filmed in Stockholm mostly from the period of 2016—2018. The main focus of the crews WOL, JNR and BRO. But also follows other graffiti crews and writers around Stockholm.
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Words on the street: graffiti of the Paris protests – in pictures
As the cleanup operation continues across across the French capital after violent demonstrations against rising taxes and the high cost of living, the messages left behind reveal some of the motives and emotions behind the unrest
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10 key moments in street art history that made graffiti a beloved international art form.
A look at 10 important moments in the history of graffiti that pushed graffiti art from underground subculture to mainstream trend.
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Belgian Fries / De Zoutkorrel (The salt grain) by Martinus
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The Graffiti Grammar Police
Their names? Agent X and Agent Full Stop. Their mission? To fix illegible and grammatically incorrect graffiti everywhere… starting with Quito, Ecuador. Collectively known as Acción Ortográfica Quito, these two grammar vigilantes have started a movement to make the world a better place, one punctuation mark at a time.
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The secret inspiration for the internet.
An old one.
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Graffiti authorisation.
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